Where did Wang Bo drown? It’s best to have a history.

For a long time, the traditional view of Wang Bo's cause of death, place of death, and year of death is that he died of falling into the sea, and the place where he fell

into the water was in the South China Sea. This statement comes from relevant records in the new and old "Book of Tang". "Old Book of Tang" says that Wang Bo

died in the second year of Shangyuan (675) because he went to Jiaozhi to visit relatives: "(Bo) fell into the water and died at the age of twenty-eight." And

The "New Book of Tang" records that he "drown across the sea and died of palpitations at the age of twenty-nine." According to the "Gongxin Tang Shu", Wang Bo died in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (676).

The poet Yang Jiong, who was contemporary with Wang Bo, also verified this theory. In his "Preface to the Collection of Prince's Anthology", he also believed that Wang Bo died in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, people have generally accepted and believed in this for a long time.

However, some people think this statement is quite suspicious.

After a series of research, some scholars pointed out that the new and old "Tang Shu" and Yang Jiong's preface were

wrong, and found that Wang Bo should have died in the Wenming Yuan Dynasty. In August of that year (684), he died at the age of 35. At the same time, we also

investigated Wang Bo's "Preface to the March Shangsi Pulling Out the Cuneiform", which states: "In March of the late spring of the second year of Yongchun (683), the late wind

scenery was haunted and charming. According to the records of "Yu Jiaoyuan", we know that Wang Bo was still alive at this year. At that time, the place where the wedge was pulled should be in the south of the Yangtze River, which proves that Wang Bo spent a long period of hermit life in the south of the Yangtze River in his later years.

Some people have seen the Japanese version of "The Collection of Lost Essays of Prince An" edited and compiled by Luo Zhenyu, which was a woodcut version of the Wuwu Year

(1918). There is an appendix in it, titled "Letter between Peng Zhigu, Meng Xianzhong and his brothers since his death". This is a letter written by Wang Bo to "Wang's six wise brothers". Wang Bo ranked sixth, and Wang Quan ranked sixth, so he was named Wang Liu. Wang Quan was also a young poet with considerable literary talents. "New Book of Tang" praised him in this way

: "If you have such a temperament, you can praise him." "The condolence letter from Peng Zhigu and others said: "How can it be said that the good brother passed away and turned into a foreign body? The sea of ??pens has ceased to flow, the poems have fallen into pieces, and the beams have been damaged, but I will put them in place. The officials and other generous and upright people, Xue

Luoquan Shi, crossed the beam and thought of Hou Ying, climbed to Jiuyuan and recalled the meeting. In Panhuangmen's swamp, there is no Fuqin Zun, and in Mengchangjun's pool platform, there is only the wind and moon. I'm sad, no matter what. " Therefore, it can be seen that Wang Bo's death was due to "self-annihilation", that is, he sank into the sea and died.

Then how did Wang Bo "self-annihilation"? Wang Bo's The clan uncle Wang Chenglie wrote a memorial poem that revealed the secret. He wrote: "It is sad to be in a foreign country for a long time, and it is not spring for several years." The waves startle in the east and the scenery falls in the west

Yu. "Among them, "Donghui" should refer to the Kuaiji area, while "Xiyu" refers to Wang Bo's hometown, Longmen area. Because Emperors Yu and Shun once established their capitals in Puban, it is generally called " "Xiyu". "Bo Jingdonghui" refers to the fact that he committed suicide by drowning in Kuaiji

area. If the place of suicide is in Kuaiji, this would be consistent with the above mentioned Wang Bo's suicide in the river

It is consistent with the fact that Wang Chenglie lived in seclusion in the south for a long time. The date of his memorial service is August of the first year of civilization.

This is the first sacrifice shortly after Wang Bo's death. Therefore, Yang Jiong said "Shangyuan." "Three years" is most likely an error in "the first year of civilization

.

With these historical data, the mystery of Wang Bo's death for thousands of years can be cleared up. , it is clear.

After Wang Bo's death, according to Wang Chenglie's letter, the issue of Wang Bo's Lingshu was mentioned: "The envoy asked the question: The deceased Sun Lingshu is there. After hearing this, I became more confused. "This also refutes the theory that Wang Bo died in the South China Sea

. Wang Bo did go to Jiaozhi and served his father there. Yang Jiong's "Prince An Ji

"Preface" said: "After abandoning his official position and leaving his traces, he was raised in Jiaozhiyan. "Can we combine these words and understand that Wang Bo went to Jiaozhi and fell into the South China Sea? Obviously not. From Wang Bo's collected works, we can see that Wang Bo went to Jiaozhi and fell into the South China Sea. The many articles he wrote when he came back from Jiaozhi prove that he returned from Jiaozhi safely. 'We only need to think carefully to know that given the conditions at that time, it was impossible to find Wang Bo's body in the vast sea and the South China Sea. .

So how reliable is the Japanese version of "The Collection of Lost Essays of Prince An"? Scholars have discovered that the end of these lost manuscripts contains the words "July 26, the fourth year of Qingyun". Qingyun is the year number of Japan's civil and military dynasties

, which is equivalent to the first year of Emperor Zhongzong Jinglong of the Tang Dynasty <707 years). If our assumption that Wang Bo died in the first year of civilization (684) is true, this manuscript was written 23 years after Wang Bo's death. The original manuscript also contains the imperial pen of Emperor Gensho of Japan

. Motomasa was the second empress of the Nara dynasty. She ascended the throne in the first year of the Reiki era (715) and abdicated after eight years of retirement (724). This book is hidden in the treasury of the Shoso-yuan of the Imperial Palace in Japan. It is a secret book hidden in Japan and rarely comes out of the treasury. The researcher also told in detail how he obtained this manuscript and how he later obtained a long volume of lost manuscripts from the Yanjing Library of Harvard University in the United States, which also stated that it was originally written by the Ueno clan of Japan.

Hidden. In addition, in the photocopy of Zhengcangyuan seen by scholars, the words "Heaven", "Earth", "Star" and other words are written in the original fonts created during Wu Zetian's period. So far it can be seen that There is no doubt that it is a manuscript from the early Tang Dynasty.

The scholars' eloquent words, reasonable analysis, and conclusive evidence gave a new explanation and reasoning about Wang Bo's death that had been passed down for hundreds of years, thus overthrowing the It is a fact that people have unanimously recognized for thousands of years

Drowning in the South China Sea.

Afterwards, some people also published articles saying that Wang Bonan fell into the sea in a storm on his way back from his trip to visit his father, but

was eventually rescued. Because Wang Bo was not accustomed to water, he fell ill after being frightened. He died in the second year of Yifeng, Emperor Gaozong, at the age of 28. There is a "Preface to the Shangsi Floating River Banquet" in "Zhuzi'an Ji", the content of which has many similarities with the "Preface to the Shangsi Bacui" in March

They were both written by Wang Bonan when he traveled to Wuyue. The specific time should be during the compilation period of his tenure as Prince Pei, that is, the spring of the second year of Zongzhang, so the "second year of Yongchun" in the preface should be an error of "the second year of Zongzhang". According to Wang Bo's deeds, he died in the south and was buried there. Wang Chenglie's residence at that time was far away from Wang Bo's death place, so he was able to write a memorial tribute. It is also possible that Wang Chenglie offered sacrifices to Wenzhi a few years after Wang Bo's death and when his coffin moved back. According to this point of view, Wang Bo did not die of drowning, but of illness. He did not die in Wuyue, but died near the South China Sea. Hao Yue's poems and essays were only his works when he passed by before.

Just relying on such a Japanese and Tibetan manuscript has overturned the long-recognized statement. It seems that the power is not enough

. It is a novel point of view to say that Wang Bo died of illness due to fright. It seems that this debate about Wang Bo

's "self-destruction" will continue.